You intrepid heroes kill zombies, collect hats, and wait. Skeletal Dance Party faces, the CHAIRQASITION!
Game: Skeletal Dance Party
Webzone: Skeletal_Dance_Party
Devel: Catalope Games
Engine: Unity
Price: £6.19 / US$8.99 /CA$10.29
Wazzat: Necromancers! Paladins! Skeletons! Monsters! Oh, my! You play as Reva, a young fox-eared necromancer who embarks on a quest to host an awesome dance party for all her friends… who happen to be the reanimated skeletons of her enemies.
Mandatory Disclosure: Devs sent us keys on Curator Connect
Does It Launch
- Yis.
- It zombie’s on me once but it was not repeatable.
Performance @ 1080
- Solid 60 at UHD /w everything on YOLO.
- Slow arse load time.
Graphics
- Think Minecraft with vaseline smeared on the lense.
- Also voxels.
Control
- You can technically use a controller with this game, I don’t suggest it.
- WASD is your best bet here and everything eventually works.
Does It Launch
- Yes it do
Performance @ 1080
- Holds a solid 60 @ 1080
- UHD makes it a wee unreadable
Graphics
- Holy no font scaling @UHD batman
- It looks like voxels
Control
- Standard wasd fare
- Doesn’t seem to like my scroll wheel
- And that camera control. Geez
Does It Launch
- It launches and remembers settings
Performance @ 1080
- This is odd.
- In some conversations the game slows down so much, it almost freezes.
- I have to alt-tab out and back in for it to skip the conversation and then I can continue playing.
- It uses exactly 1 core while doing the random level generation and it takes for fucking ever!
- At UHD the FerPS come down to the low 40s when you have 10 skeletons and another 10 skulls floating about.
Graphics
- It’s more of the proto-Minecraft style of graphics like Smith & Winston.
- There’s also an issue with those forcefields on my end, where the transparency layer seems to be z-fighting with some purple texture.
- Music can get a bit repetitive if you’re going a slower pace through the level, but it works.
- I’m pretty sure I’ve heard that voice actress somewhere.
Control
- Those default controller bindings are… odd!
- But at least it’s easy enough to swap the D-Pad to the right stick and vice versa.
QA Score:
Fun section:
Fun?:
- Venn:
- The controls for this game are atrocious.
- Well they might only suck a little but it’s hard to tell with your minions constantly dry humping you.
- Is this a physics game?
- I’ve been playing for over an hour and while I can move shite around I have yet to have a reason to do it.
- It’s not clear when I can resurrect the ded or what is needed to regain that ability.
- ZERO fkn idea what exactly triggers picking up items and weather or not I need them.
- What voice direction was given to the lass doing the main character?
- Sensual frightened young girl with a hint of weeb?
- Because that’s how it came across, Brad.
- Skeleton voice was passable, well I should say the voiced lines were.
- By the time I reached the first Templar i had nerfed the oonce oonce and replaced it with something more appropriate.
- Crash Test Dummys.
- After derping around some more it becomes clear all the crypts are rehashes of one another.
- It tries to be cute, it tries to be clever, hell, it tries to be a physics game but at the end of the day?
- It’s something to FK around with for 30 minutes because hey, dancing skeletons.
- Jordan
- This game sort of plays like a single player MOBA
- Actually, come to think of it reminds me a bit of Nekro
- You summon your creeps and send them ahead. Sometimes
- Sometimes your skellies or zombos get stuck on stuff. A lof the time it’s you
- And you stick right back to them
- After reading pedro’s schitck about inventory management, I tried managing the inventory on my doods
- Man, that system is crappy and non intuitive
- And the crowning stinky jewel is the camera. Considering you use your mouse for aiming, directing minions, you often times find yourself staring through a wall
- The writing doesn’t really do it for me, and after about an hour I started listening to the new vektor album and muted the game soundtrack
- And then one of the dungeons glitched on me and didn’t lower a door after I killed everything and didn’t let me finish the level, so I gave up
- Pedro
- It’s Brütal Legend without the awesome soundtrack.
- But in losing the sound track, it certainly wins in not ham-fisting the RTS bits down your throat.
- The only strategy here is to carefully pick up the equipment and summon as many skeletons, pumpkins, or kamikaze demi-liches as possible.
- If you have a full roster from what your equipment allows, you’ll basically just steamroll all through the level and flatten everything that comes your way.
- The real difficulty is from guiding your character and her army of flailing skeletons through the level.
- The AI on those skeletons often gets caught in the scenery, each other and your character.
- Even at the best of times, this is a game which will not blow your mind.
- But as a game that doesn’t take itself too seriously, it’s not bad at all.
- If it weren’t for the performance and graphical glitches, I’d give it 3 chairs.
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